US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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A man in a skirt leads "Free Maduro" march in Seattle:



He appears to be with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a communist political party established in the 1980s as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist organizations.
 
Suburban Bastard said:
I see you're also stalking the Faytuks server
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faytuks is the best geopolitical OSINT server once you filter out the TDS

Sekirodiealot said:
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I love the fucking retweets going "hurr hur are you surprised he's against American imperialism"
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the guy who had the president of the USA in death stranding 2 have an APAC brand on the back of his neck MIGHT have some criticism of US foreign policy
 
SCV said:
I heard something similar from my parents and it is so fucking stupid. According to them this is le bad because now there's nothing stopping chiyna from invading Taiwan. As if Xi has been able to do that the whole time but just needed to find a moral justification. Oh and also that moral justification is one that needs to comport with what white shitlibs think, not anyone in China or Taiwan.
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I'm so glad someone mentioned this. This is probably going to be perceived very differently by military analysts than by normies/journoscum. This raid is challenging a lot of assumptions and lessons that were learned during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Some of the below assumptions are a little weird, but I guarantee you that governments around the world consider them gospel:

  • Russian failure to establish air supremacy was not a fluke. The vulnerability of air assets even to middle powers is a fact the world's militaries will have to contend with going forward.
    • People are still trying to figure out how American helicopters weren't shot down, whether it was stealth, lack of training/maintenance from the Venezuelans, or some kind of soft-kill DEW. Whatever happened, it would seems this assumption is premature, at least when it comes to the American military.
  • Land based anti ship missiles make any kind of landing by sea impossible, this is made clear by the large standoff distance the Black Sea fleet requires to avoid Ukrainian attack. All future wars will require land borders and robust regional alliances.
    • Apparently not.
  • There exists a spectrum between attritable and high-performance systems. Technological advances currently favor highly-attritable systems, and likely will for the foreseeable future. The American preference for monolithic high-performance systems represents a profound weakness going forward.
    • There might still be some truth to this. However, if DEWs were indeed used to protect American air assets during the raid, this could be a sign that the advantage in the attrition-performance spectrum is swinging back hard towards performance. There's a possibility that small drones can be disabled with a CPR that is considerably less than the cost of the drone itself. Countermeasures can be taken, but not without increased cost. In that case, the drones become less attritable, and the last 15 years of military technology doctrine across the entire planet (including America) just went out the window.
  • The American military expects China to invade Taiwan at any time, but at least before the decade ends. This attack is expected to occur between either late March and late April or late September and late October. The initial landings are expected to target the extreme north and south of the island. When the war comes, a variety of lesser conflicts will begin across the world, in order to divide American attention and resources. Specifically the following conflicts are anticipated: Russia/Western Europe, Saudi Arabia/Iran, a large conflict in the Western Hemisphere (likely within the US itself).
    • Russia won't be prepared for an invasion of the rest of Europe within the above timeframe, this is likely according to plan.
    • The Gulf states only really matter because of energy export to two main sources, Europe and East Asia.
      • Gulf energy export to Europe only matters because it theoretically makes Europeans more resistant to Russian coercion. With the Russians otherwise occupied at the moment, this probably isn't a great source of concern among American planners
      • Most Gulf energy exports to East Asia go to the PRC. The loss of supply would almost certainly be beneficial to American interests. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the American military was involved in disrupting shipments. China has been investing in overland oil imports specifically for this reason, but these tend to be smaller and more concentrated (ie, vulnerable to attack).
    • In the Western Hemisphere, this main state-level adversaries to US interests were funded by a mix of Venezuelan oil and drug trade. Whether or not Venezuela rapidly aligns with American interests, the loss of oil funding represents a serious blow to this alliance. There's plenty of foreigners in America that can cause trouble though.
  • The American government is uniquely sensitive to foreign consensus and averse to casualty. There are lines they will never cross until their enemies cross them first, giving American Adversaries complete and total control over conflict escalation.
    • This has always been shockingly delusional, but seems to have genuinely effected high-level thinking on war with the United States. Regardless, it looks like an international appeal to rules-based order to protect dictatorships didn't work this time. Who'da thunk?
None of this is 100% correct, of course. But it all aligns with current doctrine that guides political decisions all over the world. If I had much respect for politicians and doctrinal theorists, I might even find that impressive. Still, I think it's good to keep in mind. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a lot of announced changes to foreign policy among American adversaries in the next few.
 
CIS White Droid said:
Kojimbo didn't like that the US did a raid on Caracas? Well shit boys, better pack it in and release Maduro immediately! Seriously though, who gives a fuck what some hack fraud Jap "game" developer thinks about US policy?
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Kajima is entitled to his opinions on American imperialism, just as much everyone else is entitled to not care about them.
 
CIS White Droid said:
The US needs to bring back McCarthyism with a vengeance. Communist/socialist agitators should be treated like what they are: agents of hostile foreign powers.
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I remember Humphrey Bogart had to pen an "I'm No Communist" article in Photoplay after he got suckered into joining a communist front group because they had a flashy Pro-Free Speech name.
Group got exposed in front of the entire House Unamerican Activities Committee.
 
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